InternshipConnect – Italian Hospitality School in Rome

InternshipConnect

“InternshipConnect”

  • Project Coordinator: Mission Locale Picardie Maritime (France)
  • Project No: 2025-1-FR01-KA220-VET-000351411
  • Implementation Period: September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2027
  • Project webpage: https://www.internshipconnect-europe.com

InternshipConnect is a European transnational cooperation project developed under the Erasmus+ programme, aiming to improve the transition from education and training to employment. The project focuses on enhancing the quality, accessibility, and effectiveness of internships as a key pathway into the labour market.

The initiative responds to a critical gap between education systems and employment opportunities by introducing innovative support structures and bridging mechanisms. Through a structured and collaborative approach, InternshipConnect seeks to make professional immersions more secure, inclusive, and impactful for participants.

The project’s core objective is to design and implement a comprehensive “bridging model” that supports learners before, during, and after internships. This model strengthens employability skills, facilitates smoother integration into the workforce, and improves coordination between educational institutions, employers, and support organisations.

By fostering cooperation across multiple European countries, InternshipConnect promotes the exchange of best practices and the development of sustainable solutions that align with evolving labour market needs. Ultimately, the project contributes to building a more resilient, skilled, and employable workforce across Europe.

Project Objectives:

  • Facilitate professional integration pathways for learners
  • Improve employability skills through structured internships
  • Develop a new generation of support professionals for internships
  • Strengthen collaboration between education, training, and labour market actors
  • Ensure internships are secure, inclusive, and effective

Main Activities (Work Packages)

The project is structured into four key activities:

  1. Project Management: Ensuring smooth coordination, implementation, and monitoring of all project actions.
  2. Development of a Bridging Model: Creation of an innovative system to facilitate and secure professional immersions (internships).
  3. Establishment of Experimental Support Hubs: Setting up local and transnational hubs to test and implement the model in real environments.
  4. Communication, Dissemination & Capitalisation: Promoting results, sharing best practices, and ensuring long-term impact and sustainability.

Expected Results

  • A structured bridging system for internships
  • A training pathway for support professionals
  • Creation of pilot hubs for experimentation
  • A dissemination strategy and communication plan
  • A capitalisation report documenting results and best practices

Partnership

The project brings together a diverse European consortium including employment services, vocational education and training providers, higher educhation institutions, chambers of commerce, and consultancy organisations:

  • La Mission Locale Picardie Maritime (France) – Project Coordinator
  • Le Cube Consultants (France)
  • Ballymun Job Centre (Ireland)
  • Območna obrtno-podjetniška zbornica Kranj (Slovenia)
  • AMC (Portugal)
  • Italian Hospitality School SRL (Italy)
  • HOTEL SCHOOL Hotel Management College (Latvia)

This multi-sector collaboration ensures a holistic approach to improving internship systems across Europe.

Key Impact

InternshipConnect aims to:

  1. Improve youth employability across Europe
  2. Enhance the quality of internships
  3. Build stronger education-to-employment connections
  4. Support inclusive and sustainable labour market integration

Project News

The project No. 2025-1-FR01-KA220-VET-000351411 is co-financed by the European Union.